August Borchard

August Borchard
Born	(1864-07-04)4 July 1864 Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Died	19 February 1940(1940-02-19) (aged 75) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Freiburg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Jena
Occupations	Physician surgeon

August Borchard (4 July 1864, Lemgo – 19 February 1940, Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Würzburg and Jena, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1888 with a thesis on carcinomas of the antrum of Highmore, Ueber Carcinome der Highmorshöhle. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant in the pathological institute at Marburg and as a physician in the surgical clinic at the University of Königsberg. In 1895, he was a senior physician in the surgical department at the Diakonissenhaus in Posen. He later moved to Berlin, where he attained a professorship in 1908.

In 1930, he became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 1934/35, he served as president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (German Association for Trauma Surgery). He was co-publisher and editor of the Archivs für klinische Chirurgie and the Zentralblatts für Chirurgie.

Selected works

• Über Lungenschüsse, 1917.
• Lehrbuch der Kriegs-chirurgie, (with Viktor Schmieden), 1917 – Textbook of war surgery.
• Die deutsche Chirurgie im Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918, (with Viktor Schmieden), 1920 – German surgery during the War Years 1914–1918.
• Lehrbuch der Chirurgie (with Carl Garré), 1920 – Textbook of surgery.